Steve Hackett Quotes

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

I write my music.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs.

I am an inventor of music.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

Composing music is hard work.

I'm always working on music.

I just want to focus on creating more music.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

I just want to keep writing music.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

Making music is fantastic.

Rap is something you can just throw on the skillet and fry up real quick. That's how it comes to me, my train of thought. It's like getting dressed - I don't have to sit down and stare at clothes, I just pick what I like and put it on. But rock, you gotta put it in the oven and let it bake.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.